The Times' Dodgers reporters give you all the news on the boys in blue

So maybe the first four weeks of spring training haven't gone exactly the way newbie Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly envisioned.

Thus far the Dodgers can’t hit, field or pitch. Hey, it’s all up from here! The hitting has been particularly lacking, but you can almost feel Mattingly shrug his shoulders when he tells The Times’ Jim Peltz that he’s not concerned:

"Not really. Not at all, actually. It just doesn't matter."

He’s mostly right, of course. If the Dodgers start well, who’s going to remember how they played in early March? If they don’t, however, plenty will.

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